Comments on: There’s another point which wasn’t brought up re the Secret Service and Manuel Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Claude Sciberras https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1115386 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:48:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1115386 Of course Franco Debono is now completely silent on these issues.

Once he had told us that these issues are even more important than jobs and the economy but now that he has been silenced he seems to think otherwise.

No surprise, but those who used to say “Ghandu punt Franco Debono” or “imma sewwa qed jghid” etc. should look back and learn that what is important when listening to what someone is saying, is not to take things at face value but to see the context and the motivation.

]]> By: Evarist Saliba https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1114649 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:09:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1114649 “Separation of powers” is a democratic concept.

“Concentration of power” is a concept adopted in Dom Mintoff’s time, which is being resurrected by his inheritors.

]]> By: Mojo Malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1114606 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:37:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1114606 In reply to Makjavel.

And there we were thinking the blokka silg coverup was such a big deal. Little did we know.

]]> By: where are we? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1114432 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:14:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1114432 You said that Mallia is pretty thick. You are being kind.

]]> By: SUV https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1114366 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 08:01:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1114366 The main argument is that one day the secret service could be investigating a minister or THE minister himself.

Would they at this point?

]]> By: Prue Freeder https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1114320 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 07:23:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1114320 In reply to ciccio.

I beg to differ Ciccio. During their 25 years in opposition the Labour Party did absolutely nothing to convince me they have changed so I’m not surprised at all.

]]> By: vic https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1113767 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 20:14:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1113767 Now we can control the activities of our rivals in this lucrative trade.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1113721 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:56:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1113721 After 25 years in opposition, they said they were ready to govern, and many believed them.

The rest of us expected that they would surprise us.

And surprise us they did.

What a government of amateurs and clowns.

]]> By: Jonathan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1113667 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:02:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1113667 Are the interviews for the Secret Service personnel part of an ongoing recruitment process or was the interview process started after the election in order for Mallia and Muscat to put their own men in the Secret Service?

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/theres-another-point-which-wasnt-brought-up-re-the-secret-service-and-manuel-mallia/#comment-1113630 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:27:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=33670#comment-1113630 When you say ‘in his other life’, I would say being a minister is his other life.

Are we going to erase his brain of all he’s learnt while in office?

What a great sales pitch: ‘I am the only lawyer who knows all the inside information’. Priceless.

If the ‘system’ allows this to happen then don’t blame him for exploiting it.

Change the system at the earliest opportunity. In this case, long after the horse has been deep fried with chips.

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